Thursday, August 28, 2014

Dan Kristensen (Klaus
Tange) could find no sign of his wife Edwige (Ursula Bedena) when he returned
home from a business trip. Moreover, the communications executive’s suspicions
were aroused by the fact that the chain was across the door when he unlocked their
apartment, suggesting that someone ought to be inside.

Inquiring
of neighbors only served to compound the mystery, between his landlord who suggested
that his wife had a reason to disappear, and the provocatively-dressed elderly
senior who tries to seduce him after saying that her husband had disappeared,
too. As he makes his way around the building, Dan gradually discovers that the
place is a den of iniquity where people participate in all sorts of bizarre
sexuality.

With each flat he
enters, the sadomasochistic displays revealed are increasingly kinky,
eventually even rising to the level of a bloodbath replete with decapitation.
Co-directed by Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani, The Strange Color of Your
Body's Tears is not so much a mystery with a linear plotline as a surreal
thriller designed for cinephiles with a taste for abstraction and eroticized
violence.

Undeniably artistic, yet gruesome and harrowing,
this atmospheric adventure has a dark, ominous air about it which keeps you braced
for something bad for the duration of the entire endurance test. A difficult to
decipher whodunit guaranteed to have you still scratching your head even after its confounding
resolution.

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